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Chapel bells herald new school year

Photo by Joshua Hardin

The newly completed St. John Francis Regis Chapel was a major part of the Capital Campaign for Regis University. The remaining goals of the campaign in~lude continuing renovations on Main Hall, scholarships for students, and renovation of the Science Building, which will begin this spring.

Regis professor shares story of Ludlow miners through poetry Jacqueline Kharou. Editor-in-Chief

Just down the street from Chipotle

and Heidi's Brooklyn Deli on 32nd and Lowell, Dr. Eleanor Swanson, profes­sor of English and published author, slid into her worn cushioned chair. The small, but eager party gathered togeth­er under the soft hum of the air condi­tioner in West Side Books, and poised on mismatched furniture to hear Swanson and the two other poets fac­ing them.

"It will never be quiet here," the patron said, after the crowd had silenced.

This past Sunday, Swanson and two friends, Bob Cooperman, professor of English and poet, and Chris Ransick, Denver's poet laureate, held a poetry reading in West Side Books. The

reading featured poems from each of the new authors' most recent works. Each author focused on historical events, using those happenings as inspiration for a series of related pieces of poetry.

Cooperman read from his book, "A Killing Fever," which had been based on the murder and rape of two sisters in Casper, Wyoming in 1973. Cooperman's poetry focused on differ­ent voices of the story, whether those voices were from the townspeople or from those close to the family of the victims, in order to tell the story and the events that followed.

Ransick's book, "Lost Songs & Last Chances," on the other hand, related to a different kind of hi~torical event. The inspiration for this collection, Ransick explained, came from his experiences on the road with his fami­ly for summer vacations. His poetry

was organized into "suites," which focused on the highway, but had sev­eral different and related parts.

Swanson read from her new book 'Trembling in the Bones," a collection of poems centered on the Ludlow coal mining colony of the early twentieth century. Swanson explained that her poems were inspired by the lives of the miners, the lives of their wives and children, and the often cruel conditions in which these people lived.

According to Swanson, Ludlow colony was one of many mining colonies in early twentieth century Colorado. The coal miners and their families lived in small tents near the coal mining sites, working under unsafe conditions and living in a deso­late land with only tents for shelter.

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Denver, Colorado

President recalls beginnings at annual address ·

Jacqueline Kharouf Editor-in-Chief

While the end of August marks the beginning of the school year for most incoming freshman and returning stu­dents, the last month of summer her-

• aids a different sort of beginning for President Father Michael Sheeran, S.J.

On Tuesday, August 22, at the annu­al President's Employee Appreciation Luncheon, Fr. Sheeran shared the accomplishments of the past year. These included the opening of the new campus Chapel, the record enrollment into Regis College and Rueckert Hartman School for Health Professions, new sites for the SPS program at Aurora and Longmont, the opening of the new parking lot and athletic field (on the previous Kmart space), and Regis University's move in the U.S. News Rankings from twen­ty-sixth place to twentieth.

In the packed Dining Hall, Sheeran explained that the Capital Campaign is nearly drawing to a close with $59 mil­lion collected, of the $75 million goal. The remaining money, Sheeran said, needs to be garnered in order to help high need students receive scholar­ships, to finish renovations on Main Hall, and to reconfigure the computer system needs on campus. As part of the Capital Campaign, the Science Building will begin renovation in the spring.

In terms of other developments, Sheeran noted that due to increased and increasing enrollment, he is cur­rently looking into more space for classes and specific programs. The motherhouse at Marycrest, for instance, is being considered for the Rueckert Hartman School as a place to hold classes and alleviate spatial concerns on the Lowell Campus.

Sheeran also spoke on the upcom­ing political elections and the impor­tant i.ssues that will be raised this November, including gay rights, abor­tion, and stem cell policies. He encouraged the present faculty and staff to "model the sort of civil dis­agreement that should be the mark of human discourse." Sheeran warned of the tendency of the generation to use • Jerry Springer" methods to argue on controversial issues.

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"We have a generation of students raised up on Jerry Springer and The Capitol Gang who believe the person who shouts the loudest is the winner and that respectful discussion of points of disagreement is a waste of time," he said, "In our classrooms and our own conversations, let's see if we can model for our students and for each other the sort of respectful dis-

Photo by Graham Hunt

agreement that makes it possible to learn from each other."

To conclude his address, Sheeran . recalled another new beginning in his life. This year, Sheeran begins his fifti­eth year as a Jesuit. The anniversary reminded him, he explained, of an 1gnatian meditation on the Kingdom of Christ, in which he realized his life was a sacrifice to build the Kingdom on earth.

"For the last 31 years," Sheeran said, "Regis has been the world in which to work that out in practice.·

For Sheeran, the work and the sac­rifice is not only his, but rather, is a shared endeavor that begins anew at the start of each year.

"I'm so glad to be with you as together we enhance this beginning of a model of the Kingdom Christ came to gently build," he explained, "The length of service of so many people in this room argues that it's not just me who takes delight in this community. I want to thank each of you for making something here that none of us can achieve alone."

Monday ,August 28, 2006

Bernie Langfield recounts a lifetime of. Berkeley-Regis experiences The following article was reprinted from issue 19 of fast year. Bernie _Langfield, who just recently celebrated her 85th birth-

d h b · t · ·th the Chapel memorial brick program. Bncks can be purchased at $500 to commemorate fa m-ay, as een ass1s mg w1 . 35 · th u · ·t R I t · 0 i/y, friends, or professors. For more information call Ms. Langfield at extension 35 m e mversi Y e a ions ffice.

Andrea Silva Senior Reporter

Ice skating after school at Rocky Mountain Lake Park and Berkeley Lake. Boys practicing football at Regis High School's field in the fall. Corner grocery stores and ice cream parlors lining Tennyson Street. For Bernie Langfield, secretary of university rela­tions services, these are just some of the images that color her memories of North Denver long ago. Born and raised in the Berkeley-Regis neighbor­hood, Langfield has lived within a two­mile radius of Regis for nearly her entire life.

Having only left North Denver during the "war days" (WWII), Langfield has witnessed the gradual evolution of the Regis-Berkeley neighborhood. She speaks of a time when "dads worked and moms stayed home and took care of the family"; when the neighborhood was filled with family-owned bakeries, taverns, soda fountains, and dry goods stores. Though much has changed, she says that the rejuvenation of areas like Tennyson is reforming the neigh­borhood similar to how it was when she was a child.

Langfield grew up at her family's house at 3892 Xavier St. during the 1920s and 30s, where she was born and lived until she was married. The house, which is no longer in her family, is on the old Elitch Garden property between Tennyson and Wolfe. Langfield's father was a freight solicitor for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad while her mother stayed home to raise her and her five brothers and sisters.

All children attended school at Holy

Family on 44th and Tennyson, where

Langfield's father helped build Holy Family Church and her mother was the first PTA president. Her brothers were very involved with sports at school and would frequently walk from Holy Family to Regis to prac­tice football on what are now the soccer fields.

Back when Langfield was in high school, a Bernie Langfield, pictured above at the President's favorite pastime Annual Employee Appreciation Luncheon, works in the was to go dancing office of University Relations. She has been a resident of at one of the many the Berkeley neighborhood for 85 years. dance halls in set foot in the door. town. One hall was at Elitch's, which To Langfield, Regis has not changed Langfield says was called the much over the years, in the sense that Tracadero. "It was the most beautiful "the Jesuits have kept a good reputa­ballroom, the loveliest place in Denver tion." She acknowledges the fact that to go dance" said Langfield. "You had some neighbors now have building a date with a high school boy if he had concerns with parking issues, though 5 cents-that was a set of 3 tunes, so 50 she believes "Regis is trying to solve cents was a swell night out on the that problem." As a veteran resident of town!" the neighborhood surrounding Regis,

Though Elitch's has since been sold Langfield has seen over the years that to Six Flags in recent years, Langfield the university "has maintained itself says that other places around the with the respect from the community, neighborhood have stayed the same. and it certainly is an asset to the com­Gaetano's at 3ath and Tejon is an munity to ~ave such ~ w~nderf~I Italian restaurant that had a reputation school of higher education in their for criminal/mobster activity when she area." was growing up. "When we were Psycho/og! m~jor Andrea Silv~ is c~r­young, we were always told, don't go rent/y wo~k~ng m Atlanta Georgia w1t~­there, it's too dangerous" said Lanfield. the D0mm1can Volunteers. ~he w_ill Today, the restaurant stands under spend a . year in ~tlanta he/pm~ with new management, but she has still not community education and plannmg.

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Service Learning class culmi_nates in Ghana service project

Photo by Melissa Nix

Tinansa 2006 group arrives in Ghana. Lower left to right: Emma Atuire, Kristi Schaefer, Alice West-Goers, Adelle Monteblanco, Awon Atuire. Upper left to right: Eric Anieyaab, Kaitlyn Schwartz, Denise Pena, Thomas Socotch, Eric Goshorn, Feven Desta, Helen Tekle, and Dr. Lisa Garza.

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Tlnansa offers a balanced academic and experiential learning program

. that explores the connections between West African history and heritage and African American social thought and experience. Tinansa encourages students to better under­stand and become critically con­scious of the so-called 'first'/third world divide and involves three phas­es: classroom instruction, field experience, and community out­reach.

The first phase took place in spring 2006 when students took Sociology 365 African American Social Thought and the West African Influence. The second phase took place in May 2006 and was a 14-da·y immersion in Ghana. It included a 7-day service project at Wesley Girls' School , where 10 Regis students and 3 facul­ty and staff worked with Ghanaian youth to build a children's library. This fall, returning students will design and implement local service activities related to Africa and its influence on African American histo­ry, culture and life.

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Rebuilding Biloxi: Regis students and staff assist Interfaith task force Katie Simons Staff Reporter

Getting up at 3:15 a.m. to head to the airport seems daunting for many college students, particularly after a long week of finals and graduation. On May 10, 12 students and six staff members, myself included, departed for a week-long trip to Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi, to provide assis­tance in Hurricane Katrina relief.

With Interfaith Disaster Assistance coordinating relief efforts and providing tools, we were divided into two crews for roof replacement and house repair projects. Westminster Presbyterian Church provided housing, and days began early, but as the week pro­gressed time became irrelevant.

While my group tore off and re-shin­gled roofs, the other Regis group had the opportunity to dry wall and paint the house of an 80 year old man named Willie. Willie had ridden out the storm on his kitchen table with his neighbor while his roof was torn off. He ended up in the hospital with and infec­tion and overcome it all to see his house being rebuilt. Willie was eager to be back in his house and get out of his FEMA trailer; his presence brought a smile to everyone who was around him.

What stuck out for me from this trip is the hope and strength of the people we met. So many waited out the storm and stayed in their homes, and even after the destruction, want to remain. While some have given up, there are many more that remain strong. Of course the destruction is a very over­whelming sight. In particular on the

photo by Katie Simons

While one group tore off and re-shingled roofs, the other Regis crew had the opportunity to dry wall and paint houses. The roof crew poses with a resident eager to return to his home.

coast of Mississippi, which was hit extremely hard, as well as in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, which we took the time to visit. Some areas are com­pletely wiped out.

We accomplished a great deal in one week, but I think for many of us that was not enough. It is important to remember there is still work to be done and that more trips like this one need to continue in order to rebuild this Gulf Coast. As a country and people we can rebuild the Gulf Coast, just like the back of our t-shirts said, "Katrina won the battle, but the Gulf Coast will win the war."

Participants in Gulf Coast trip:

Students: Brian Couch, Chris Dieterich, Frank Haug, Lina Fulkerson, Allison Hingten, Adrian Manriquez, LaVanda Mireles, Phuong Lan Nguyen, Chanell Ort1z, Jacob Sandoval, Pearl Shields, Katie Simons, Brittani Sours, Luke Stolz.

Staff: Deborah Vinnola, associate director

of Regis College Admissions Nate Jacobi, University Ministry

Physical Plant staff Mike Harris Scott Ormiston Pat Schlanger Paul Turco

Monday, August 28, 2006

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Speakers at Regis University

David Trimble, 1998 Nobel Peace Prize "Transforming Religious

Conflict into Lasting

Peace"

Thursday, October 19,

7:30 pm. Student Center

Albino Barrera, O.P. Professor of Economics and Humanities, Providence College "Holiness in the

Marketplace: The Promise

and possibilities of Business

and Economic Life."

Thursday, October 26,

7:30 p.m. Science

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Colorado State University-Pueblo* University of Colorado CO Springs* Ft. Lewis College*

4:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m 12:00 p.m.

Colorado School of Mines* Women"s Soccer

St. Edward's Midwestern State CO School of Mines*

New Mexico Highlands* Metropolitan State*

Colorado Christian*

Montana State-Billings CSU-Pueblo* Mesa State*

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Metro State Colorado Christian

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Nebraska Kearney 7 p.m. Chadron State 5 p.m. CU Colorado Springs 7 p.m. _ Colorado School of Mines 7 p.m.

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Wed. Aug. 30: Music Convocation, Open House 7-8:30 pm

Thurs. Aug. 31: Music auditions TBA

Thurs. Sept. 14: Caron/Gonzalez art opening 4:30-7 pm

Thurs. Sept. 14: Sandip Burman 7:30 pm

Sat. Sept. 16: Alumni Weekend Showcase 3:30 pm

Sat. Sept. 16: lstanpitta 7:30 pm

Wed. Sept. 20: Quintin Gonzalez lecture 7 pm

Wed. Sept. 27: Music faculty recital 7:30 pm

Thurs. Oct. 5: Katie Caron lecture 7 pm

Mon. Oct. 9: Performance class (voice) 7 pm

Wed. Oct. 18: Performance class (mixed) 7 pm

Sat. Oct. 21: Early Music Festival 10 am-9:30 pm

Sun. Oct. 22 : Early Music Festival noon-5 pm

Mon. Oct. 23: Performance class (guitar) 7 pm

Tues. Oct. 24:. Faculty viola recital 7:30 pm

Mon. Oct. 30: Performance class (piano)7 pm

Wed. Nov. 1: Santos opening reception with

Collegium performance TBA

Mon. Nov. 6: Performance class (guitar) 7 pm

Wed. Nov. 8: Faculty voice recital 7:30 pm

Mon. Nov. 13: Performance class (voice) 7 pm

Tues. Nov. 14: Performance class· (mixed) 7 pm

Mon. Nov. 20: Performance class (piano)7 pm

Tues. Nov. 28: Jazz Ensemble 7:30 pm

Wed. Nov. 29: Student chamber recital 7:30 pm

Thurs. Nov. 30: Guitar ensemble and soloists 7:30 pm

Fri. Dec. 1: Student voice recital 7:30 pm

Mon. Dec. 4: Student piano recital 7:30 pm

Mon. Dec. 4: Coflegium rehearsal 3:30-6 pm

Tues. Dec. 5: Collegium Musicum 7:30 pm

Wed. Dec. 6: University and Concert Choirs 7:30 pm

Sat. Dec. 9: Santos art market 10 am-4 pm

Poetry from front page

The significance of Ludlow, in particu­lar, stems from the massacre which occurred there. In this massacre, Swanson explained, eleven women and children died in a pit as they hid from an uprising between the miners and the company owners.

Swanson explained that although the mining colony at Ludlow, located in

Photo by Graham Hunt

Dr. Eleanor Swanson read from her new collection of poems, "Trembling in the Bones" at West Side Books this past Sunday.

Southern Colorado, is an almost unknown part of coal mining history, the Ludlow Massacre is an event which should be remembered.

Swanson was first inspired by the historical event when she happened to find a sign along Interstate 25 marking the location of the Ludlow Massacre.

"I walked into the pit," she said, "and I felt this overwhelming feeling of grief and I knew I had to write about it.·

While Swanson said that her book is firstly a work of fiction, Swanson also said that most of her book is historical­ly accurate. Swanson used many names of actual Ludlow miners and their families, but she also used fiction­al voices to help fill in the chronology of events.

Although each collection was unique and different, Swanson accurately described the common theme they each shared. "These stories are sad," she said, "but they are also stories of courage and resilience ... stories of the kinds of things people can get through."

For more information about Dr. Swanson's book tune in to 1340 AM Denver for her radio interview. The interview will air Thursday, August 24 at 10:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. The inter­view will also be online at www.kcfr.org.

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The following poem is an excerpt from Swanson's book. It begins the collection and establishes the histori­cal setting of "Trembling in the Bones."

Allotment Colorado Territory 1865

By Eleanor Swanson

Trace the history of Arapahoe, Ute, Cheyenne across the Southern Plains of Colorado.

Follow sunlight caught in rough bison hide, and vast herds thundering through prairies, enveloped in the land's glittering dust.

Before another turning of the earth, hard sunlight bleaches the bones of buffalo carcasses white fur traders left to rot.

High fashion changed on a whim and the traders let their forts fall to ruin. But already Indians had long b·een without meat and their bodies were hollow with hunger.

In the mountain camps, gold miners cut timber for their campfires until green forests no longer rippled across the landscape.

Without trees there must be coal to bum.

The treaties that gave the Indians this land no longer applied. At Sand Creek, the militia came at dawn. When they were finished, more than one hundred were dead under the bright morning's eye, all now deaf to the locomotives huffing into Denver and the singing of the meadowlarks. All forever blind to the liquor-colored glow of coal · gas lamps along the avenues of the Queen City.

There must be enough coal.

Everywhere its seams wind deep, honeycombs of rich, dark coal, wealth without end.

We must have more coal burning red as heart's blood in every furnace, every stove, every locomotive, every factory.

Photo by Graham Hunt

West Side Books, near 32nd and Lowell, hosted the poetry reading, which featured the work of Dr. Swanson and her friends, Bob Cooperman and Chris Ransick.

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Exploring the neighborhood and Regis University:

From restaurants, to shopping, to local cafes and serene lakes, the Berkeley and West Highlands neighborhood has plenty to offer. Last year the Highlander encouraged the Regis_ community to know our neighbors. This year, we hope to continue that relationship through community involve­ment and coverage of neigh­borhood issues.

The Highlander

All photos on page four by Graham Hunt. Map drawn by Jacqueline Kharouf.

A glimpse at Berkeley neighborhood's past Jacqueline Kharouf Editor-in-Chief

In order to understand the relationship between the Regis community and the Berkeley neighborhood, it i~ important to review the history of the area. This history, while humble in its origins, claims an important part of Denver's heritage and is uniquely tied to the place many students have claimed as their Alma Mater.

the people, who numbered just over 700 at the time.

Berkeley remained a largely rural com­(llUnity before it was annexed, without much industry and with only a few local stores. The post office at 41 st and Tennyson had a small business area complete with the first Eaker's grocery store, a movie the­ater, and a drug store, as well as hardware and furni-

In her history of Northwest Denver, Rediscovering Northwest Denver Its History, Its People, Its Landmarks, Ruth Eloise Wiberg delves into the history of the Berkeley neigh­borhood, which began, simply enough, as an alfalfa farm. In 1879, John Brisben Walker bought a 1600-1700 acre plot of land located on the southern slope of a ridge running two miles north of the junction of Cherry Creek and South Platte River. He named the land "Berkeley Farm," possibly because, as Wiberg explained, Berkeley Springs, Virginia had been the birthplace of his son, John Brisben Walker, Jr. The farm was just another economic venture for Walker and so in 1888 he sold Berkeley Farm after first giving 50 acres to the Jesuits, to relocate their Sacred

ture stores. L--=.-'--=-'--'~==--=~---=-==...;;. ...... After the annexa- © Denver Public Library, 1918

tion, however, A man and woman prepare a meal in the back of a camper at Rocky Berkeley neighbor- Mountain Lake Park auto camp in the Berkeley neighborhood of Denver, hood grew and Colorado. · expanded under vari- In other areas, Berkeley was ous city improvement projects. slow to develop. In 1910, only Berkeley Park, for instance, was three houses stood between transformed from a swap into a Regis College and the Henry new pavilion and bathhouse. In Weirich celery farm, which had fact, Berkeley Lake had once been bought in 1900 by the been a popular spot for swim- Weirich's and was located on ming and ice skating before the the east end of Rocky Mountain water was tested and proved to Lake at 48th and Federal. In be unsanitary. City improve- the late teens, an "auto camp" ments also included the devel- graced the shore of Rocky opment of Inspiration Point, Mountain Lake. which provided an overlook of Today, Berkeley neighbor­the Clear Creek Valley and the hood is growing and developing Rockies, as well as the to meet the demands of a

Heart College from Morrison,~-----------------------, CO. College. In 1887, Sacred Heart College was founded on Lowell Boulevard; it would later be renamed Regis College in 1921.

According to Wiberg, Berkeley Farm was then pur­chased by a syndicate from Kansas City, who assigned Carleton Ellis and John McDonough with the task of developing the suburb'. This suburb was not developed very quickly; however, in 1892, after a neighborhood petition of 41 people, the suburb was named "The Town of North Denver" and © Denver Public Library, 1919

claimed 450 people a_s its A man and a boy fish along the bank of Rocky Mountain Lake in inhabitants. The boundanes of Rocky Mountain Lake Park in the Berkeley neighborhood of the town, the same as those of Denver, Colorado. Berkeley Farm, followed, as Wiberg described, "West 52nd Interlachen Country Club, which Avenue on the north, Sheridan was later redeveloped into Boulevard on the west, and the today's Willis Case Golf Course. east and south boundaries stair- Denver also made Berkeley a stepping from 38th and "streetcar town" because of its Sheridan to Tennyson, distance from the city. Many of Tennyson from 38th to 44th, these same lines are used by 44th Avenue from Tennyson to buses today. Perry, Perry from 44th to 48th, In the early part of the twen-48th Avenue from Perry to tieth century, Berkeley neigh­Federal and Federal to 52nd." borhood was known for its

The Town of North Denver extensive parks, beautiful water changed its name to "Berkeley" district, and clean, fresh air. It in 1898 only after the areas sur- was often a retreat for city work­rounding the suburb had been ers who would come by street annexed by the city of Denver. car to Elitch Gardens, Berkeley Berkeley would not be officially Park, or Sloan Lake. It was also annexed until 1902, when it was an area well known for healing included in the state legisla- and rest, especially for sufferers ture's official creation of Denver of tuberculosis who W!')re as a city and county. Berkeley attracted to the clean air of the was annexed without a vote by suburb.

changing world, an evolving environment, and a larger com­munity. Pat Dela, assistant to councilman Rick Garcia, for the district which Berkeley neigh­borhood occupies, said that while Berkeley is growing, the neighborhood is also looking to the past for a brighter future. Many of the improvements, which Berkeley neighborhood is currently undergoing, including restorations of historical sites and improving community cen­ters and marketplaces, aim to maintain that small rural feel which has been historically unique to Berkeley.

There is a difficulty to main­taining this feel, Defa explained, especially with the changing relationship between Regis

University and the Berkeley neighborhood. Defa said that while this relationship is chang­ing because the school is grow­ing, the neighborhood is hon­ored to have the university as a part of the community, "Regis University has. really grown," she said, "and I think the neigh­borhood thinks of it as a very high caliber [and] really special private school that we're privi­leged to have in our neighbor­hood."

This article was reprinted from issue 17 of•last year.

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Living the Regis mission: Lovia Shipp and Noel Cunningham receive Civis Princeps awards for service to the community and to the world

At the May 2006 graduation, Regis University graduates were joined by honorary recipients of Civis Princeps, the highest award at Regis University. Civis Princeps, meaning "First Citizen," is awarded to individuals who live their lives in the service of others. The recipients at the traditional under­graduate and the Rueckert Hartman School for Health Professions ceremo­ny were Noel Cunningham and Lovia "Lovey" Shipp, two people who live the mission of Regis University in their daily and professional lives. President Father Michael Sheeran introduced the recipients.

Fr. Sheeran: Lovey was born in 1927 in East St Louis, IL. She said she grew up poor as anyone else in town, but happier than most. From that founda­tion she has used her life to give back to others. St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, said "Love ought to show itself in deeds more than words. " That is exactly what Lovey does every time she reaches oµt to help the homeless in Denver.

A long time supporter of Fr. Woody projects, Lovey donates both financial­ly and with her time. She is a fixture at Regis University Father Woody wrap parties; in December she worked her

2ih Father Woody Christmas Party in downtown Denver. This project to bring the true spirit of Christmas to Denver's homeless just wouldn't be the same without Lovey's enduring support.

A graduate of our sister school, the Jesuit St. Louis University, Lovey began working at Holy Ghost Church when she retired after 35 years with the Army and Air Force Finance Centers here and in Missouri. Although her job title at Holy Ghost was secretary, Lovey found herself doing everything from typing to mop­ping to plumbing to cooking to Eucharistic ministering. Her service to others truly encompasses a wide range of service and commitment.

Above all this was the door lady; she never knew who was going to be on the other side of it, except that most of the time they were in need. When was it right to be utterly generous, and just pat them on the shoulder? When was it right to call them to something more? This is the lady who_ knew, and she did it so well that Fr. Woody could trust her at all times. She indeed lives Fr. Woody's motto that caring and sharing from the heart gives life its meaning.

I'd like to invite now Regis trustee . Mary Jo Bory/a to join us at the podi­

um. I mentioned that Lovey performed all sort of duties at Fr. Woody's church. It is really appropriate that our trustee Mary Jo Bory/a be here to present the Civis Princeps, because after all, Mary Jo is Lovey'.s goddaughter. .. Regis University is pleased to bestow Civis Princeps on Lovey for her leadership in service of others, for her life of car­iag, and for her exceptional dedication to the ideals that guide the university.

Lovia Shipp: My goodness. My goodness. This is better than I ever thought it would be. But first I would like to congratulate all the Regis grad­uates. I know most of you, I know how hard you worked, not just in your stud­ies, but in your community. That is important to me, and it's important to Regis, and it's the thing that will also pay you. My second part is to thank Fr. Sheeran, trustees, honored guests.

Thank you for this amazing award. I know what Civis Princeps stands for. I know what Regis University stands for. This is the best from the best. This is an unbelievable, unbeatable, unforget­table honor. I would like to dedicate this to my many loving friends, a tire­less team who have through the years managed to turn the Golden Rule to platinum. I thank you.

Noel Cunningham

Father Sheeran: St. Ignatius of Loyola said "teach us to give and to not count the costs." That is indeed something Noel Cunningham has learned. Noel originally made a name for himself in the culinary world and is the owner of Strings and 240 Union St, where if you are smart, most of you will be cele­brating your graduation later today. Considered, the two of them, among Denver's finer restaurants. Today however we are honoring him for his efforts to make the world a better place. Regis students have been enable to take service projects to Africa, thanks to the Cunningham Foundation, established by Noel and his wife Tammy.

In June 2003, the Cunningham Foundation made it possible for three nursing students to participate in a trip to Ethiopia by awarding them grants to cover two-thirds of the cost of partici­pation. Noel did not simply give finan­cial aid. He and Tammy joined the group, working round the clock in a therapeutic feeding center for several­ly malnourished children.

In 2004, the Cunningham Foundation helped five Regis College students, and five East High School students, along with one staff member from the Regis Library, to participate in a service trip to Ghana, to establish a children's library in a former slave fort. Tomorrow, 10 Regis College students and two faculty and staff will leave for Ghana to establish another children's library in a kindergarter through eight school in Wesley Girls School. The Cunningham Foundation contributed to this project with a grant of $7500 dollars to help build and furnish that library. Noel knows that development in impoverished communities is about sustainability and finding lasting solu­tions. And he helps find those answers.

Therefore Regis University is pleased to bestow its most significant

honor, Civis Princeps, on Noel Cunningham, born in Dublin, the man who has made such an impact in Denver. For his leadership in service to others. For his outstanding accom­plishments and for his exceptional dedication to the ideals that guide Regis University.

Noel Cunningham: I must share this with my wife, Tammy. There is absolutely nothing I can do or accom­plish without the wonderful support of my wife.

We've heard some words today about changing the world and really what my goal, my dream is, for us in the United States [is] to change our hearts. We live in the most privileged country in the world, and you only come to realize tfiat when you travel. As Father said, when we were in Ethiopia in 2003, it's one thing to see a child on TV who looks malnourished, but it's a whole other thing to be stand­ing next to a child who is one years old and weighs six and a half pounds, and it's touch and go whether they make it.

was it was a health issue. It wasn't about all the poor kids with no shoes who were going to hurt their feet. What she explained

to us was the animals live inside the house because they are their possessions. They go to the bathroom in the house, and the chil­dren step in it, with lit­tle cuts in their feet and feces go ln there, and so on. And because of changing that into a health issue I'm happy to tell you that now 1,000 kids have a pair of shoes that were made in

Photo by Josh Hardin

Noel Cunningham challenged graduates " to be extremely successful in what you do. While you achieve that incredible success, please include the global society." .

This university has been extremely instrumental in helping to change a small community in Ethiopia called Yetebon. One story I'd love to share with you is about how simple a change can be. When we were there it was really quite profound to look at the chil­dren with no shoes, and some of them were walking up to two hours to go to school.

One of your wonderful professors here, Rita Axford, put the perspective of not having shoes in a light that made it really important to make that change. What she explained to me

one of the lowest in the world, to 0.7 percent. And I will ask you to hold the politicians accountable to change that. Again thank you again for a wonderful day today. I am floating on Cloud Nine.

Please refer to the photo col­lage on page three for an exam­ple of living the university's mis­sion of service. The collage chronicles the service trip to Ghana to establish a chi/den's library.

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Thank you Dr. Service, and thank you to the faculty, staff and administra­tion who have chosen to dedicate their lives to education. I want to especial­ly thank my family, who in addition to their unwavering love and support, have through the example of their own lives given me direction ~nd hope.

Today, we celebrate. We celebrate our time at Regis, the all-nighters in Carroll , the hours spent in the library pouring over Aristotle, and statistics, and anatomy. Gathered with our friends, family, and colleagues, we commemorate the moment, the culmi­nation of our collegiate careers. But most of all, we proclaim the future. This morning we come together to cel­ebrate the ability of some 200 men and women, to do nothing less than change the world.

We've spent four years exploring the question "How ought we to live?" .. .from religious perspectives, scientif­ic perspectives, philosophical per­spectives. and so on. The goal of this question is, in my mind, to discover how it is exactly that we can build a better world . I haven't the time today nor the intelligence to even attempt an answer. Humanity has spent thou­sands of years trying to discover the way we ought to live, and we've got a lot more searching to do. But Mother Teresa once said: "God doesn't require us to succeed, He only requires us to try." So I'd like to sim­ply give a few examples of people graduating today that have done just that.

One rainy Thursday I went with some friends down to the Broadway Assistance Center. As I walked in the door I saw Jay Goral, a basketball player and accounting major from Regis. Now, while certainly kind, there's nothing particularly outstand­ing about someone taking two hours out of their Thursday afternoon to stand behind a table and serve food to the homeless. What touched me, and what left a mark on my mind, was something else.

A homeless man comes in cold and wet from the rain wearing a filthy flan­nel jacket, and when he sees Jay his face lights up and he goes over to him. Jay is wearing his usual pristine white shirt, because Jay is a stylish guy, and when the homeless man sees this he steps back, hangs his head, and dis­appointed, puts out his hand. Jay looks at the man's hand, smiles, sweeps it away and pulls him in for a hug. Then Jay in his newly stained shirt, and the man, newly cleansed, go through the line together, get their soup and bread and sit down to eat; laughing, talking about sports, and sharing in each others lives. I later found out that Jay goes nearly every Thursday, not to fulfill a service requirement, but to see his friends, to nurture himself, and his community .

A Marin~ who proudly served his country during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan , Justin Goldman is a man of exceptional honor, commitment, and sacrifice. But it is not just his military service that makes him an extraordinary person.

A few weeks ago I ran into Justin in the library. I knew he had been work­ing hard on his thesis which addressed the small war tactics that he believed the US military should adopt in order to effectively combat insurgents in the middle east. I asked him how it was going and he said he was pretty much done. So I asked him what he was doing in the library and handed me a book. I turned it over and was surprised by the title: "Growing up Palestinian." It was the biography of three Palestinian youths, explaining how a hopeless situation and a lack of education led them to lives of violence. Justin didn't need to read that book, and there's no doubt the tragically personal stories of these three young men, our international peers, served only to complicate an already complicated issue. But he read it anyway, because he knows that no one has a monopoly on justice. He read it because he knows the res­olution to conflict can't be achieved through the delegitimation or destruc­tion of our enemies, but through the multifaceted consideration of issues.

These are only a couple of the many examples that I could site of people graduating today who are already changing the world. But they have taught me two important things. It is not occasional acts of kindness that define us, or make us valuable mem­bers of society, but the continuous and open cultivation of virtue and commu­nity. It is not final resolution, not the defensive rationalization of our own beliefs, but the decision to keep searching for a difficult and elusive truth, the decision, to keep trying.

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Frank Haug, student body presi­dent for the 2005-06 school year, gave his peers a final send-off at the May 2006 graduation.

Margaret Mead, the same words my father used when he delivered the civis princeps address five years ago from this spot. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Thank you, and congratulations.

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A nation of readers? Justin Goldman Staff Reporter

These days, it seems that everyday concepts such as globalization, the information revolu­tion, and knowledge on-demand are thrown around, often without a sense of depth or context. The•lnternet has opened the door to a world of informa­tion and profoundly changed the way our society functions. Yet, it has also, 1 believe, created the illusion of under­standing and competency. With all likelihood, today's traditional college­age students began developing appar­ent Internet savvy prior to their teenage years. But I sense that many young adults do not make the most of this unprecedented access, due to lim­ited interest and proficiency in reading about serious, newsworthy matters.

This past December, Michael Gorman, president of the American Library Association, responded to a study assessing adult literacy by telling the Washington Post "Only 31 percent of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it. That's not saying much for the remainder."

The literacy study, along with others by scholars such as David Mindich, suggests that a small percentage of

young adults take the time to read seri­ous news coverage. Those who do follow pertinent issues display the abil­ity to present nuanced arguments. Speaking from my own experience, it has been invaluable to make the time to read about current events. I am concerned about the question, "Is that book for a class?" It is troubling that often students would only associate reading with class requirements. It comes as little surprise that older gen­erations view the students of Generation Y as children of the happy­go-lucky nineties who have faced little adversity.

From my point of view so much in life has a political connotation. The lack of interest in current affairs has created a trend that threatens a core aspect of representative government; the decline in civic virtue and engage­ment. It seems easier for a young per­son to go through life with little or no awareness of his/her connection to the state or of the responsibility that goes hand-in-hand. Take the case of H.R. 609 which failed in the House of Representatives by a vote of 200-220 last week. This legislation would have cut student loan interest rates from 6.8% to 3.4%. According to the Kansas City• Star, the recent budget signed into law by President Bush trims approximately $12 billion in fund-

ing for student loans over a five-year period.

I believe that college students need to make the time to read-for the com­mon good, and their own enlightened self-interest. The current global sys­tem has social justice consequences for people worldwide that need to be fully understood. Also, when today's college students tackle today's job market they cannot ignore global trends that impact public, private, and non-profit sectors. As students gradu­ate and the grace period ends, they will have to begin to repay those stu­dent loans that the Congress chose not to reduce the interest rates.

When a young American consumer dials up the call center over a difficulty with their iPod, it may often be a skilled worker from India on the line trou­bleshooting the problem from Bangalore. Terence Chea writes in the Seattle Post that with its numerous call centers and software firms serving for­eign clients, Bangalore is the center of the global outsourcing debate. According to The Associated Press, IBM, Dell, Microsoft and Oracle are expanding their Bangalore work forces to tap into India's huge pool of well­trained, relatively inexpensive engi­neers and other professionals. We live in an uncertain world; a world where volatility from the East Asian

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A positive trend is the number of fac­ulty members who bring current print journalism and scholarly writing into classroom discussions. Professors can encourage good reading habits, but at the end of the day students must take ownership of this critical tool of learning. David Ignatius wrote in the Washington Post, in response to the Congressional rejection of the Dubai Ports World deal that, "It sent a mes­sage that for all the U.S. rhetoric about free trade and partnerships with allies, America is basically hostile to Arab investment." This era demands understanding the political, economic, social, and historical tensions underly­ing national decisions and priorities. We need a nation of readers.

This article was recently published in the fall 2006 edition of Conversations, the Jesuit magazine.

Justin Goldman recently graduated from Regis University with a degree in international policy. He was the Highlander's opinion editor last year. Justin Goldman is now Senior Management Analyst at Global Management & Technology Consulting in Washington, D. C.

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